May

First part of our 6 week design project is over. Carrying on with a manifesto project in pairs with relation to your skin/bone design. In addition, my new Kenzo fragrance arrived today. =]

Media Archive

Working on a media assessment at this week. We have to make an archive ( any form within A1 size) for all the drawings we did in the first half of this semester. My archive will be based on the idea of pop-up cards. Each of the 6 weeks’ drawings will be filed into a folding card with some parts designed to pop-up when opened. It’s due next Monday which I will possibly post up some photos during the weekend.

We have also got given out a new design brief today. Its a 6 weeks project broken up into 1-3-2 weeks small course work. The main theme is about skin and bones architecturally. This week we will be doing researches on existing architectural projects.

Surprisingly, my work from last project “Fort Lane” is selected by my tutor to exhibit with other outstanding works from other tutor groups. I thought Adrian’s alleyway would be selected because it received a lot of compliment from the critique section while mine was criticised on the lack of evidence showing how the space would be occupied. I believe Padma was impressed by my researches and my thinking processes.

Mid semester break

As Nikki said, I have been slacking and didn’t update the blog for about two weeks. Part of that was because of the workload from the end of mid sem.

Two weeks project on “Fort Lane” was done and we had our first formal crit with guess critics. The comments was quite constructive and I really regret taking out the base of my model just minutes before the crit. (T.T) I actually learn alot more from my peers than just looking at my own work.

I took quite a lot of photos in this 2 weeks, so I will let the photos speak for themselves.

My feet can’t touch the ground

We went to Auckland Domain to test out our ’solution’ for lifting a body off the group. Here are some photos of the day.

19 on the 19th

Haven’t been updating this blog for almost a week. Obviously there will be too much to write about in one single entry. So I will focus on the boldest event here, which is my 19th birthday. It has been the best birthday I have ever had in my friend. Although it was only a cake, a song, a crowd of people, a gift, and some laughs, but when these are all came from friends that I only met 2 weeks ago, it touches my heart deeply. The cake made me full. Celebrated with my family when I got home at 5 with another really nice cake. Still waiting for photos from friends.

I have also showed Ross, my media tutor my progress of my one to one plan drawing project. He liked my idea of using light trail to draw my line passively. Tomorrow, we will be at Auckland Domain, presenting our ‘thing’ that can lift a person off the ground. So stay tune!

Umbrella Studio – More Photos

Body Parts Connection

Our second design project is to be in a group of 3. Then each person will be allocated with a body part. As a group, we have to construct something that connects these three body parts through any representation we want. Our group constructed a structure that connects nose, spine and little toe together. Our idea was to explore the change in distance and position between the nose and toe with regards to the spine in relation to growth and ageing. More photos will be added later.

A new design project

From what we heard, we will be starting a new brief tomorrow in design studio. Looking forward to that, however we heard it’s gonna be due on Thursday. Hope that’s not true. Nothing much for today, just ordinary lecture, then went to play pool with Anthea and Kelvin.

Umbrella Studio Ended

That’s what my friend Adrian and I did this week for the Umbrella Studio. Due to the time constrain, we couldn’t solve several problem, because it will require a big make over. On Monday, I will be taking better quality photos as a record for our portfolio.

Busy Day

I don’t have time to write a detailed full blog entry today as I woke up at 6 today and will be the same for tomorrow. We presented our idea of the bubble cloud umbrella to the tutor group and received quite a lot of attention. On the ride to city, Eva also gave me comments on our design which is very constructive, however we don’t have enough time to review our design again. So me and Adrian have put together the umbrella together. The final result is not exactly what we wished for, I will see if I can fix that tomorrow morning.

Besides that, we had our media class today. Started off with an hour lecture and during the lecture, I can see a whole bunch of people ‘fishing’. Probably everyone is tired from the studio class in the morning. The workshop afterward was fun though. We did blind drawing, pictionary and paper cut out. I will try to take some pictures tomorrow morning.